How much of your life involves games?

[jamail77]

I'd say I spend a good third of my life in all honesty. Gaming is a big part of who I am. This may be a mostly gaming affiliated website, but there's bound to be some variation, so, with that in mind, how much do you let gaming take up your life?

EDIT: Anything that has to do with video games goes, so talking about them, cuddling with them, or just playing them are all fair game to include in the time you spend on video games in your daily life.

 

[shrekfan246]

"Involves" seems like a very general term.

Would that include time I spend talking about games?

Watching other people play them?

Thinking about them?

Cuddling up to them in bed after a rigorous gaming session?

If so, then the answer is "a lot."

 

[Foolery]

Very little lately. I enjoy them, no doubt, but being at college puts them on hold. That, and they just don't have the appeal they once did. Kind of burnt out and my time is better spent elsewhere. I do miss having a regular group to play co-op or MMOs with.

 

[jamail77]

"Involves" seems like a very general term.

Would that include [examples]

I'll edit my OP to make it a bit clearer. Basically I'm asking how much of your life is taken up by anything involving video games, including all the examples you just listed.

 

[Catfood220]

Very little to be honest. I work full time as well as a on call rota so I'm lucky if I get a couple of hours a night to play games, I might play on the weekend but again that is limited. Getting old sucks. Plus there is only one person I work with who really games so I can only really talk about it with her. So yeah, not a lot of my life is gaming these days.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Lot less since I started working out and tried to develop my social life, plus I take an evening class now with lots of homework and work six days a week. But I still get some time to myself, but it's a lot less than when I used to ignore homework and game endlessly.

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

Not all that much, really. I haven't even touched a game in about a month, I believe. And I'm usually only interested in 2 or 3 titles a year. My biggest passion is music, not games, and it kind of shows I guess. I devote most of my time these days to listening to and exploring music, I've chosen to represent myself visually after music and etc. Where as games are more of a simple pasttime I sometimes indulge in if I'm bored. Very rarely do I ever fully immerse myself into a game now. Witcher 3 will be a good example of one I will, however. The occasional game can certainly hook me back in, even if momentarily.

 

[Colour Scientist]

Not that much anymore, in terms of playing time.

I went through a temporary period of homelessness so my games were packed away with the rest of my belongings. I've settled into a house now but I'm working full-time and have been visiting people at the weekends so it's been a while since I'd been able to sit down for a long session.

As for non-playing activities, not that much. None of my friends are gamers, with the exception of one or two. I talk to my boyfriend about games occasionally and I talk about them here sometimes but that's kind of it.

I guess gaming is a very private experience for me. XD

 

[leberkaese]

I'd say roughly ~50% of my spare time. How much time I got changes from week to week depending on how much stuff I got to do for university and my side job.

 

[Phasmal]

I would say most of my free time. Not quite all of it, a girl's gotta eat and browse websites, but those websites are usually about gaming, so yeah. Like 80-90% of my free time.

Sadly, I don't have as much free time as I'd like.

 

[L. Declis]

I look at the Escapist daily for about half an hour...

And I think I play about an hour per day, sometimes more, some days not at all...

Ever since I have returned to uni AND working at the same time, I simply don't have much time to game. Once I begin working out more and taking my work a bit more seriously, as well as finishing writing my textbook, my gaming time will take a plunge.

My fiancee is, however, happy about this, seeing it as growing up. But then, when I met her, I used to game for six hours per day, which wasn't precisely healthy either.

In terms of "games", not "video games", I am developing a board game and I miss my Warhammer. So I spend most of my time thinking about games, but not necessarily board games.

It's led to me now being happy when they say "This game is only 4-10 hours long". Only four to ten hours? Yes please, it means I can finish it. I rarely do side-quests now and I always just pile through story as quickly as possible so I can finish it and move onto the next game, I don't have time to waste collecting 100 Pig Testicles or whatever.

Things like JRPG's and grind-quests, they're gone from my diet (not that I missed FFXIII-3:LR) as I can't find good ones and I sure as hell would rather play 4-8 normal, fun games than one 100 hour game of which, 60 hours was grinding.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Gaming is pretty much my biggest hobby, so I'd say a fair amount of it. Not half of my spare time, but I'd say pretty damn close.

 

[babinro]

95%

Gaming is pretty much the sole focus of my life. It's what I've chosen to prioritize above nearly all other things. It's why I work part-time rather than full-time. People are meant to live life to the fullest and I believe that gaming is how I best accomplish this.

 

[VanQ]

It's my primary hobby and where most of my spare time goes.

I have commited 9 hours a week to raiding the most difficult content in WoW for about 9 years now and have consistently been a top 1000 world ranked player for more than half of that time. Usually if I'm active on this forum I'm either deep in a WoW session but not raiding or on my lunch break at work, posting from my phone.

Outside of that I like to play a lot of RPGs/sims and RTS games peppered with TF2 sessions with friends here and then. I've recently added Heroes of the Storm to my regular playing sessions, trying to do my dailies as often as possible.

As a note, I do spend a lot of my free time away from games too, even a hermit like me needs to socialize[footnote]And maybe find a girlfriend so my parents stop asking[/footnote], but I find that games recharge my batteries more than anything else. Considering I work a 40-48 hour work week I need to recharge my batteries.

 

[Bart XB]

I started playing videogames before I could read. I think I was 3 or 4 or something. My dad owned a NES. My uncle owned a PC. When my parents got a divorce (can't remember them ever together, my mom left my dad when I was 2 years old). I spent a lot of time with my grandparents, my youngest uncle was still in his late teens and he owned an Atari 2600 and we'd play that.

Because my grandfather noticed how much I liked videogames he got me my Megadrive (Genesis) and later a Saturn. And my first PC.

He made me work for it though, but I enjoyed doing choirs for him. He never bossed me around. He thought me how to shoot, clean guns, cast my own bullets (that's dangerous if you don't know what you're doing), use powertools, replace electrical wiring, light switches, powerplugs, different chemicals, how to make wine, the different methods of fishing (catching an eel, pike or bitterling require different techniques) and how to clean and cook them, grow fruit and veggies, turn a bird into food, cuz if you shoot something you gotta eat it. He didn't believe in hunting just for fun, you shoot a rabbit or a guineafowl it's for eating.

The best food is the food you catch yourself. Tastes much better than some animal who has been caged his entire life. It's also more humane. If I were a rabbit I'd prefer some years of freedom before I get eaten (by a fox, wildcat or a man) instead being born and bred in a cage.

But I digress. I've been gaming most of my life

 

[Dragonbums]

Oddly enough I spend more time talking about videogames than I do playing them. That's also not to mention I spend even more time watching LP's more than anything.

Playing games in general takes up maybe like 10% of my daily activities overall. There are times where I technically won't touch a game for a whole week or more.

I mean...I gotta be picky. Not everyone has the money to buy $60.00 games consistently.

EDIT: Most of my time is usually spent doing college homework, doing illustrations (hey that's my real passion.), and hanging out with friends. Games are a pasttime that I'm invested in on a social level and has inspired a lot of my art in certain ways.

 

[Evil Moo]

About as close to 100% as one could reasonably get. I play games in my free time every day. If I'm not playing games in my free time, I'm watching youtube videos of or about games. I work as a programmer for games.

So other than sleeping, eating and walking to and from work, chances are pretty good I'm doing something related to games.

 

[FootloosePhoenix]

In terms of actually sitting down and enjoying a game, not a whole lot these days. I've been working a lot lately and I'm typically too tired when I get home to play something myself, instead opting to partake in something more passive before I go to bed, but almost everything else I like to spend my time doing involves video games in some way. Browsing game-related websites, talking to friends about them, watching various Let's Plays and video game content channels on YouTube, posting about games...you get the idea. Yesterday pretty much the only thing I did that wasn't related to video games in any way was watch Star Trek: TNG.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Pretty much all entertainment I consume is related to games. Games themselves, online shows about games, looking at gaming websites, etc. I do certain workouts while listening to something game related be it music or the aforementioned gaming shows. It is sort of hard to say, some days I am really busy, some days I have a lot of free time.

 

[vledleR]

Most of my free time.

And some of my not free time (I'm posting about vidya games at work so..)